TY  - BOOK
AU  - Donohue Joseph
AU  - Berggren Ruth
AU  - Wilde,Oscar
TI  - Oscar Wilde's The importance of being earnest: a reconstructive critical edition of the text of the first production, St. James's Theatre, London, 1895 
T2  - Princess Grace Irish library
SN  - 0861403789
AV  - PR5818.I45 
U1  - 822/.8 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Gerrards Cross
PB  - Colin Smythe
KW  - Wilde Oscar
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-376); The Play and its Moment. 1. The Opening Night. 2. The Author of the Play. 3. Composition and Proposals for Production. 4. Emergence of the Three-Act Text. 5. Alexander and the St. James's. 6. The First Night Cast. 7. Supporting Persons. 8. The Trials and the Closing -- The Production Text. 1. The Problem of Performance Text. 2. The Rehearsal Period and the Creation of the Three-Act Text. 3. A New Text of the Play. 4. Other Three-Act Texts. 5. Texts of the First Production. 6. Editorial Approach and Method: the Arents-Frohman Text. 7. A Licensing Copy Reading. 8. Textual Evidence in the Reviews and First-Production Photographs. 9. The Harvard-Dickens Typescript. 10. The Reconstructive Text of Opening Night -- The Importance of Being Earnest. Dramatis Personae. Act I. Act II. Act III -- Appendix A. The Date of the First Samuel French Edition -- Appendix B. The Date of the Harvard-Dickens Typescript
ER  -